51. If anybody had asked me I would have said that the mighty oak is the tree of legend, the best-loved tree throughout the South. 52. I still want one, knowing full well that it is not a tomato and not a tree of the sort I can add to the landscape. 53. In one small village, the Yugoslav army had parked its trucks beside cottages, on lawns, alongside barns, within the first trees of a great forest. 54. In the standard textbook version of the evolutionary tree of reptiles, turtles are seen at the base of the tree, evolving first. 55. Instead of being arranged in chronological progression, from earliest to latest, the fossil specimens are placed so that visitors can walk along the evolutionary tree of dinosaurs. 56. It is the tree of winter. 57. It was a harsh but also a beautiful terrain with fields of Alpine flowers, prairie grasslands and trees of pistachio, oak and juniper. 58. It was his tree of mortality, his children said. 59. It will describe how the Ailanthus altissima, the tree of heaven that once grew throughout the city, is disappearing. 60. It was topped by the Jefferson quote about the tree of liberty and the blood of patriots and tyrants that was on his favorite T-shirt. |